Superstition Review > Superstition's Quotes

“Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.”
― Rachel Kadish, Tolstoy Lied: A Sharp Literary Romance – Finding Love That Fulfills Head and Heart

“He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.”
― Nick Taylor, The Disagreement

“A real diamond is never perfect.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“& remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“Everything can change, but only with abandon.”
― Alexander Maksik, You Deserve Nothing

“We're going to right the world and live. I mean live our lives the way lives were meant to be lived. With the throat and wrists. With rage and desire, and joy and grief, and love till it hurts, maybe. But goddamn, girl. Live.”
― Sandra Cisneros (Author)

“I don’t believe that blood makes a family; kin is the circle you create, hands held tight.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

“Why aren't these fantasy novels on display somewhere in my house, where there are a thousand-plus other books stacked across a dozen bookshelves? Because bookshelves do more than just hold up our books. They speak to how we see ourselves, and more obviously how we want others to see us. This is a part of my makeup I don't always show.”
― Matt Bell

“How sometimes your body couldn't tell the difference between not loving someone enough and loving someone too much.”
― Leesa Cross-Smith, Every Kiss a War

“We all need the comforting illusion of stability and security in this shaky rooftop of a thing we call life. Tevye is right; we are all fiddlers, trying to scratch out a simple tune without breaking our necks.”
― Tara Ison, Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love and Die at the Movies

“to Americans, verbiage was an inherent good, akin to kindness or courage. They loved words—the more, the longer, and more quickly said, the smarter and more impressive.”
― Angie Kim, Miracle Creek

“People should read more Indigenous writers. They are writing some of the most innovative and important work in contemporary literature.”
― Sherwin Bitsui

“The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.”
― Billy Collins

“If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“What is so frightening about [writing]? I still don't know. Perhaps it's the horrible knowledge that no matter how well you write, the resultant product will never correlate exactly to the truth, will never arrive with quite the melodious voice you hear in the acoustic cavity of your mind.”
― Brenda Miller